Car-seal.



W. T. SONDLEY.

CAR SEAL.

' APPLIBATJQN FILED AUG-20, 1914.

1,178,758. Patented Apr} 11, 1916.1

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, WILLIAM 'IU'LLY SONIDZlld-llY,v OF MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA.

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T m whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. SoNDLEr,

. a citizen of the United States, residing at Montgomery, in the county of Montgomery and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1n Gar- Seals, of which the following isa specification. 1

This inventionrelates to improvements in car seals and an object of the invention is to provide a seal readily locked and so formed as to protect the shackle employed the seal when an attempt is made to remove the seal by unauthorized persons 1 A further object of the invention is to provide a car seal the several parts of whichshall be inclosed and held rigid with respect to a shell Or casing so constructed that when a shackle is inserted thereinto it will be im possible to withdraw theshacklewithout destroving the. seal.

With these and other objects in v1ew the invention comprisescertaln novel construc tions, comblnatlons and arrangementsv off 25.

parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed. 1

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 illustrates my invention as applied to a car door. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through a preferred form of the invention Fig. '8

is a plan view of one of the'm'embers employed in constructing theseal. Fig. 4 shows a fragmentary view of the shackle and the method of constructing the ends thereof.

Fig. 5 is a detail'view showing in perspec tive the guard employed to protect the wire shackle. Fig. 6 is an enlargedperspective view of one of the interior members normally locked Within'the seal the guard member also being shown. Fig. 7 is an end view of a slight modification of the member shown in Fig. 3 after the same has been bent to the formshown in Fig. 6 looking toward the concaved circular end thereof. Fig 8 is a vertical section through" a modified form of the invention.

Simllar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The seal forming the-subj and having the other end closedas shown in full lines at Fig. 2, but before the interior of the-cylinder or shell lhas been (filled with I Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 20, 1914. Seria1"1 To.,857,726

I ect matter of" the present invention comprises a cylinder 1 having at one end thereof an opening 2- Patented A 'u, 191 I the parts shown in Figs. 3 and theend opposite the end provided with the opening 2 ls open as shownin dotted lines in Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 shows twolocking members 3 and.

4c-respectively, although one of these'mem bers may be employed, or more than two if desired, each of these members being constructed froma rectangular blank similar tothat shownin Fig. This blank has a central portion 5-from which'extend the ends 7 6 and? respectively, the extreme ends being provided with semi-circular cuts 8, while said ends 6 and 7 are bent along lines of scoring, as 9. The center of the circularpor-v tion 5 is provided with an opening'j 10, of

described hereinafter, and there. are shown a plurality of incisions radiating from the opening and indicated atfll. After the cir cular portion 5. has been provided with theopenmgs and incisions the same is. dished as seen at 12 in Fig. 6 by any suitable means:

not shown here. The ends 6 and 7 are bent.-

substantially at right angles to "the fplane of the circular member 5 :before the 'lattei-. has been dished .and. theends bent along lines of scoring 9 as will beseen in. Fig.6. v

the dimensions and for thepurpose to be 1 -It-=is understood, of.course,.that the ma.

teriali of. which'theselocking "members are made is1suflic1ently resilient to allow "the ,abutting down-turned ends which are pro-v vided with the.'semi-circularcuts 8-" to .be separated somewhat. Each of the members: 3 and 4c is" formed substantially as described. ".At Fig. '5 will be seen a guard in the form of a single'strip of material having a plate 13, the ends of which areturned'back' as at;

14. but'are separated so as; to define therebetween'a'space'15'. The plate 13 is pro vided with the slot 16 which may be of any desirable length and preferably extends so as to lie betwe'en the turne'd backends of the plate 113 which form the space 15. The slot 16 preferably-extends atleast for one-W half of the .widthofttheflplate 13. i

At Fig. 4 is shown the shackle which may be employed and it will beseen that the v stood that there will be as many of these cone-shaped engaging devices 21 and 22 as there will be looking members 3 and 4 respectively, one cone being provided for each locking member. The shackle shown in Fig. 4 is made of any material sufficiently soft to be readily bent and sufficiently duotile to have the central portion thereof fiattened.

When it is desired to assemble the parts already described, the locking member 3 which is similar to the member shown in Fig. 6 with the exception that the guard is absent, is inserted into the open end 23 of the cylinder or shell 1, it being borne in mind that this end is open and has not as yet been closed. The ends 6 and 7 may either be pressed so as to be spaced fro-m the walls of the cylinder 1 or they may be engaged thereby and held against their own resilience in the position shown in Fig. 2. The opening 10 of locking member 3 is designed to be opposite the opening 2 in the cylinder 1, after looking member 3 has been inserted in the cylinder. The bent opposed extreme ends of the portions 6 and 7 of the locking member 4 may be separated sufficiently to place thereupon the guard shown in Fig. 5, and while the opposed ends are still separated, the head 20 of the cylindrical portion 18 of the wire shackle is slipped behind the plate 13 and forced through the space between the opposed ends provided with the semi-circular cuts 8. The head then lies in the space 15 between the bent ends 14 of the guard. The ends 6 and 7 are then drawn together and'the dished end of the member 4 inserted through the open end of the cylinder until said dished end engages the locking member 3. After this the open end of the cylinder 1 may be.

closed by bending or pressing together the portions of the end separated by cuts 11. Here, again, the ends 6 and 7 of locking member 4 may be spaced from the walls of the cylinder 1 but are preferably in engagement therewith. It is apparent that with the head 20 engaging the adjacent ends of the locking member 4 that it will be impossible to withdraw the shackle. Also, the flattened portion of the shackle is too large to pass through the opening 24 left when the opening in the cylinder or shell 1 is bent. The car seal is then ready to be applied to the car and may be carried about without danger of having the several parts become detached. It may be desired, for instance, to lock the doors shown in Fig. 1. The hasp 25 will be slipped over the eye 26 after which the wire shackle will be passed through said eye and the end carrying the cones 21 and 22 will be inserted through the opening 2 of the cylinder 1 and said cones will be forced through the openings .lOagainst the resiliency of the out portions of the dished parts of the locking members 3 and 4. Of course, the bases of the cones are of greater dimensions than the openings 10. Obviously, it will be impossible to withdraw the shackle after the pointed end 10 thereof has been inserted into the cylinder 1, as above described. The guard shown in Fig. 5 serves to protect the locking member 4 and the shackle when the ends of the cylinder are closed.

The modified form of the invention shown in Fig. 8 comprises the cylinder 27, normally open at one end as shown in dotted lines at 28 similarly to the preferred form, and is shown as being provided preferably with two locking members 29 and 30 respectively, although of course a greater or less number of these locking members may be employed. They are identical in constructionwith the locking members 3 and 4 of the preferred construction. The open end of the cylinder 27 may be bent into the position shown in full lines but said bent end is so constructed as to afford an opening 31 of greater diameter than the diameter of the base of the cones 32 and 33 respectively. These cones engage the locking members as in the preferred form of the invention but they are in two parts as will be seen by referring to Fig. 8. Each end of the shackle wire 34 is made the same as the cylinder in cross section and is provided with a half cone, which when joined together as shown in Fig. 8 will form complete cones operated in a manner similar to the cones in Fig. 2. It is understood, of course, that the ends of the shackle wire 34 are put together to form in effect one wire before being inserted through the opening 31. If desired, the locking members 29 and 30 may have their dished portion 35 provided with a pair of alining perforations as shown at 36 in Fig. 7 instead of the single opening 10 as shown in Fig. 3. The locking members are provided with incisions 37 and the openings 36 serve to hold the lock in comparatively fixed position with relation to the cylinder 27.

I claim: 7

1-. A car seal comprising a shackle provided on one end with a conical point having a head formed on the other end thereof, a cylinder having an opening in one end thereof, the other end being adapted to be bent to closed position, and having an opening therein a substantially rectangular looking member located within the cylinder having one end thereof provided with an opening in alinement with one of the openings of the cylinder, and having the other end split, each of the split ends being provided with a substantially semi-circular out which defines an opening when the split ends are together, the pointed end of the shackle adapted to extend through one of the openings of the cylinder and through the..a1inedopening0f der. v

2. A car seal comprising a shackle having;

one end formed with a conical point and having the other end provided with an annular head, a cylinder having a small opening in one end, the other end being adapted to be bent to closed position and provided with an opening, a substantially rectangular locking member located within thecylinder one end of which is dished and provided'in the bottom with a dished portion with an opening from which radiate incisions, the other end of the locking member being split and a guard surrounding the split ends of the locking member, said guard being provided with a slot in alinement with the opening in the split end of the locking member, the pointed-end of the shackle extending through the small opening of the cylinder tends through the opposite end of the cylinder, the slot of the guard and the adjacent opening in the split end of the locking mem 1 copies of this patent may he obtained for her and engagedvwith 't he interior of. the

locking. member.

3/ In a car seal, -a casing,a locking member located therein andcomprising aqdevice formed" from a substantially rectangular strip of material having a central aperture, said strip being bent to provide spaced side and end portions, one end portion including said aperture and being dished, and the opposite end-being formed of the approaching ends of the strip, a shackle extending through theaperture, and engaging devices on the shackle for contacting withv theedges of the aperture. g

4:. A car seal comprising a casing, a looking member within the casing and having at each end a portion extending'transversely of the Walls of the casing, a shackle extending through the end portions of said mem ber and being locked thereto, and a slotted guard member extending around one ;end

portion, the-shackle resting in the'slot of the ard. r In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses. 'and the opening in the dished portion ofthe locking member while the annular head ex-,.

WILLIAM LTULLY "SONDLEY. ,Witnesses: v

P. G. BENNETT, .T.A'. ToMfs.'

five cents each, by dd s the commissioner of n Washington, D; G. I a i 

